Other established authors described her debut mystery to be flowing like a smooth buttercream frosting mentioned in the bakery of Melanie Cooper. The novel was very well-reviewed by the major reviewers and Jenn got much acclaim for her efforts. The plot shows that they had just opened a cupcake bakery under the name of 'Fairy Tale Cupcakes'. The first novel revolved around the life of two friends named Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura. The series, on the whole, was a turning point in the life of Jenn, which also helped her to establish herself as a highly acclaimed author. The Cupcake Mystery series written by Jenn McKinlay is a six novel series, The first novel of the series was titled ‘Sprinkle with murder’ and was published in March 2010. She still continues to write mostly in her kitchen as her apartment is always full of pets, kids, and guitars. With this series, she began tasting some success and two of novel series’ were listed on the New York Times bestsellers’ list. So, in 2008 she gave the best work of her life which was the Cupcake Mystery series. Jenn decided to switch from romance to mystery novels. She signed a contract with them and continued writing romantic stories, but was not gaining anything out of it. After this, life took a strange turn when she received a call from Harlequin. She fell in love with Chris during this course and became the mother of a boy. They did not prove to be any good to her so she decided to take up some part-time jobs.

So she moved to Arizona and began writing romantic novels. Although she had decided to become a writer after watching the movie 'Romancing the Stone', she would not get time to write anything because of her job. After Jenn attended the Southern Conn State University, she worked at a bar named Toad’s Place and took a full-time job in Cromwell, Connecticut as a librarian.

Dying for Devil's Food by Jenn McKinlay